The Mystery of the Missing Hour

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The Mystery of the Missing Hour
Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series' Sapphire & Steel'
Release no.2.6
Written by Joseph Lidster
Directed by Nigel Fairs
Produced by Jason Haigh-Ellery
Nigel Fairs
Length120 mins

The Mystery of the Missing Hour is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the popular British science fiction television series Sapphire & Steel .

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Plot

Sapphire and Steel arrive in Cairo, 1926 to solve an impossible murder...

Cast

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